The executive director of MOE innovation Africa, Mr. Gbekle Moses has disclosed that the excessive spread and siege in the numbers of HIV/AIDS in the country can be diminished through effective education and sensitization in communities and schools.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ark FM news reporter, Kwaku Mensah Abrampa after an HIV/AIDS sensitization and screening program organized by Abronoma Foundation and other NGOs at Goka And Suma Senior High Schools, Mr. Moses indicated that most of the time whenever issues of HIV are discussed in the public domain, people begin to divert the topic due to the perception we have created about the virus denoting that the virus has come to stay as the cases keep increasing at a faster pace hence the need to develop interest in it’s related topics to gain knowledge on how one can prevent themselves from being affected.
He has opined that awareness creation is the only key to reducing the spread since many will be filled with in-depth knowledge about the virus and how it can be dealt with even if contacted.
He finally advised students to stay away from sex to help the gain more concentration on their education to have a brighter future stressing that whoever cannot abstain from sex must ensure the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDs and teenage pregnancies because the stigma related the the HIV virus kills more than the virus.
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Mr. Gbekle Moses revealed that most people refuse to undergo HIV screening to know their status because of fear which he attributed it to lack of effective sensitization indicating that the only factor to drive these fear is awareness creation. He said HIV is no more a killer disease as we use to say in the previous years due to the ART drugs being discovered hence all must know their status to help prevent the spread.
